Looking for a challenging role that leverages my technical and managerial skills to drive innovation and growth in a dynamic organization.
Anees Qureshi
@aneesqureshi
Senior Engineering Leader with 20 years work exp in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering
What I'm looking for
A goal-based and proactive professional with an MBA qualification, offering over 20 years of consolidated experience in developing and improving the performance of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams to create and deploy planet-scale SaaS products. Always desiring to integrate current technologies (AI/ML) into infrastructure solutions, encourage a creative attitude, and solve complicated challenges with intelligent, reliable, and scalable cloud-native solutions.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Engineering Leader
Twilio
Aug 2022 - Present (2 years 9 months)
Achievements:
− Achieved a cost reduction of USD 700K by optimizing database infrastructure on AWS.
− Established a robust observability framework, enabling proactive issue identification and resolution reducing MTTD & MTTR by upto 30%
− Achieved 50% improvement in CSAT for Terraform and its ease of use by introducing automation for plan & apply, drift detection, sprawl, workspace consolidation
Senior Engineering Leader
VMware Carbon Black
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022 (11 months)
• Managed a high-performing engineering team responsible for delivering containerized microservices on a custom Kubernetes platform.
• Spearheaded the implementation of CI/CD flows for multiple microservices and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Oversaw team development and career progression, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
Senior Engineering Leader
Mastercard
Oct 2015 - Oct 2021 (6 years)
Achievements:
− Improved operational efficiency and reduced manual effort by developing/implementing Chef Cookbooks
− Led the virtualization team in delivering a critical project with exceptional speed and efficiency
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline for a leading Nordic bank’s test, UAT and production environments for their core banking system.
• Implemented continuous deployment on Azure for leading energy company in Nordic region using power shell enabling, ARM template leading to 3x faster deployment
• Utilised docker, puppet and vagrant to create proof of concept environments for billing project
• Managed application and platform support for Sungard’s investment platform
• Coordinated migration of databases from Sybase ASE 12.5/15 versions to Sybase ASE 15.7
• Wrote bash and python scripts for automating deployment and monitoring tasks reducing operational costs by
20%
Expert
Amdocs
Feb 2008 - Apr 2013 (5 years 2 months)
• Worked on proprietary OSS and BSS
• Promoted to team lead, responsible for 10+ engineers task allocation, client communication, status reporting
and co-ordination with management and customers.
• Awarded Amdocs India Quality Award 2010 for co-developing automated deployment mechanism, resulting
in 5x faster deployment and $50000 annual savings
• Developed automation to reduce Amdocs CRM product
• Worked on multiple development and application support projects using C++, HPUX, AIX
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
BITS Pilani
MBA, Business Analytics
2020 - 2022
RGTU
BE, Mechanical
2000 - 2004
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
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